The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-08-11
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! Petrified wood is found in great
| abundance in Burson, Calaveras coun-
ty, Cal, and vicinity.
Joel Frazier of New Virginia, Law
renee county, Pa, 81 years old, is cut
ting his third set of teeth.
A ST. Louis (Mich.) dentist adver-
tises weekly the names of his patients
| and the number of teeth extracted for
| each.
The Piute population in Nevada has
increased nearly 1000 since the census
| of 1880. On that date it was 100. 1t
is estimated now at $500.
A man at Youghiogheny, Pa, raised
a jumbo variety of strawberry which
measures y inches in circumference
one way and 81 in the other.
Miss Mile f. Folsom. a near rela-
tive of the Presidents young wife, has
been chosen preceptress of the Brook
ings Cd. T. Agricultural College.
Leesburg, Ga. has five men whose
aggregate weight is l, $3.50 pounds, and
| they measure 81 feet and inches,
an average of feet and inches
each.
David Watts, of Harrisburg, Pa,
| has a button off one of Washington's
coats. On the button are the initials
&c. w, and around them Long Live
the President"
Ex-Mayor Davis of Tuscola, H., has
| a sand-hill crane that gives a shrill call
| twenty-four hours before every storm.
He is fifty years old and has never
failed in his prophecy.
An Arkansas woman has begun suit
for three acres of ground in the most
thickly built up part of Tyler, Tex.
If she wins there will be a stampede
among supposed owners of corner
lots.
A movement for monument to the
late General Lyle is being earnestly
| forwarded by the Tribune, of Salt
Lake City. General Lyle was the au-
thor of the poem, Il am Dying, Egypt,
Dying"
Provance Mccormick, who built the
| first coke oven in this country, died at
| Connellsville, Pa, recently, aged So
years. He has been dependent on
his fees as justice of the peace for his
living.
1t is believed the tunnels of the
Northern Pacific railroad in Montana,
| where caves INSTRUCTED travel last
| winter, will never be safe until they
are arched with solid masonry, which
will be an enormously expensive I'M
dertaking.
The rapidity with which a railroad
| builds up section of country is demon
strated in the fact that there are now
| eleven. towns on the Los Angeles q
San Gabriel Valley railroad, in south
ern California, not one OF which ex-
listed three months ago.
Telegraph Manager S. w. James of
jacksonville, H., raised potato Oh
his farm which has Il big tooth, wheth-
er it once belonged to man or some
other animal or not is unknown. At
any rate the potato was dug out of the
ground with four-pronged molar
| sticking in it.
At a jubilee meeting held in north
ern town in Scotland Scotchman
who was present made the following
speech: The Queen is a discreet and
| careful Teddy, and / am always vary
proud to follow her guide example. /
ken weel that her gracious majesty
| will no gle bawbee, SO I'll just gle
the same amount mysel."
John Rodenberry of Folkston, Ga,
| has breed of hogs which is quite
curiosity in his section. There is no
split in the foot at all, and their hoof
is round and shaped just like a mules
foot. Mr.. Rodenberry says they are a
splendid kind of hogs, as they grow
| fast, are very healthy, and are much
larger than the regular ''piney-woods
rOoters."
| The Hon. j. F. White of Atlanta
Ga, has a fac-simile of the declaration
of independence, in the handwriting of
| Thomas Jefferson, showing the altera-
tons made by John Adams and Benia-
min Franklin. With interlineations,
corrections, and erasures, it presents a
very undignified appearance. Mr.
/ White has had the fac-simile in his
possession for thirty-five years.
A curious experiment INDUCED in by
| young men about New York city who
] have a feeling of resentment toward
street bands is to get pieces of lemons,
| stand before the musicians just as they
prepare to play, and begin to suck the
sour fruit. 1t is said that no musician
can shape his lips to blow his horn
when looking at man eating lemons,
and much money is usually wagered
on the result of the experiment.
A gila monster has been sent to the
st, Louis Geological Gardens from
| Denver This monster is a fifteen
inch lizard that is found in the dark
deep, out-of-the-way caves and can
yons of Montana, and is different from
almost every other animal known to
scientists, save the eyeless fish of the
Mammoth Cave. 1t cannot live in
the sunlight, and its breath ID said to
| be deadly.
DR. c. H, Stubs of Wakefield, Lam
caster county, Pa, and another man
were standing in D:crn-door during a
rain-storm. A hat blew or anu Dr.
Stubs went out to get it. As ne
stopped to pick it up a large, forked
limb was blown from the tree and fell
down over his body, the branches OF
the fork entering the ground on either
side and pinning him fast to the earth,
but without injuring him.
Lynn Jones, Benton Harbor
Mich lad of Is years, has construct
ed canoe II feet long, with covered
ends, mast, and sail, which is mar
vel of strength and symmetry, consid-
ering the youth of the builder. He had
no instructions save descriptions in a
book, and did the work unaided, his
own relatives being unaware of his
work until it was. complete. The
canoe floats gracefully and swiftly and
has been much admired.
An ancient Spanish spur, along with
some pieces of ancient crockery and
portions of a human skeleton were
plowed up by a farm-laborer near
Austin. Tex, the other day The spur,
rust-eaten is unlike anything else in
this age, and is stated by antiquarians
to belong to the Spanish era of three
centuries age. 1t is foot from tip
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